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loteworthy that on some recently reconstituted fragments of what is now
Sea-Mon- recognized to be a silver ' rhyton ' of pointed shape, from the Fourth Shaft

ster on

Mycenae — • ">"""j,'

rhyton. t\ie ]ancj from some wreck, a dog-like head is seen emerging from the

Grave,1 amongst the naked swimmers who seem to be endeavouring to reach

Fig. 520. Prototype of Skylla on
Sealing from Temple Repository (f).

Fig. 521 b. Swimmers in Deep Water
Silver Rhyton.

Fig. 521 a. Dog-headed Monster l., and
Swimmers escaping to Land : on Silver
Rhyton.

waters (Fig. 521 a), another indication that a sea-monster of this form was
reckoned in Minoan times amone the terrors of the sea.2 The shallow',
rock-floorecl sea is here indicated by conventional scale-work such as that
surrounding dolphins on a painted rhyton from Pseira. On the borders of

which Theseus rescues Andromeda on an early
Corinthian amphora (Mon. d. Inst., x, PI. 52).

1 On this rhyton see my remarks in Vol. II

2 The monster's head approaching two
curved objects on a painted stucco fragment
from Mycenae ('E</>. 'Ap^., 1887, PI. XI, 1) has
also been associated with Skylla by Studniczka,
Skylla in der Mykenischen Kunst (Ath. Mitth ,
1906, p. 50). But the curved objects are

clearly horns of a Cretan wild goat or Agrimi,
and show the usual knobs, while behind them
is part of its ear. The monster's head in this
case (which shows a real reminiscence of
Thueris) is undoubtedly that of one of the
beneficent ' Genii', common in the early part
of the Late Minoan Age, leading the wild goat,
just as others are seen leading bulls, cows, and
lions on Cretan gems of that time.